The BEST episodes directed by Darragh O'connell
#11 - The Snapping Shrimp
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 19
The Octonauts encounter a snapping shrimp – a small creature that uses its claws to make a big, and stunning, noise.
#12 - The Narwhal
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 17
While exploring the Arctic, the Octopod gets trapped in the ice. Only Barnacles's skillful navigation, and the help of a friendly Narwhal, can get them free.
#13 - The Combtooth Blenny
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 33
When Kwazii and Peso are shipwrecked on a desert island, they encounter a Combtooth Blenny - a fish who walks on land! They enlist him to send an SOS message to the other Octonauts.
#14 - The Vampire Squid
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 28
Peso must gather all his courage when he travels deep down to the very bottom of the ocean, the Midnight Zone, and encounters the mysterious Vampire Squid.
#15 - The Lost Sea Star
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 13
When the Octonauts find an unusual Sea Star on the beach, they search the ocean from top to bottom (literally) to help find its home.
#16 - The Baby Dolphin
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 35
When a young dolphin follows Kwazii home, he has to babysit while the other Octonauts search for its mother.
#17 - The Remipedes
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 9
When Shellington gets lost in a dark sea cave, he gets unexpected assistance from some blind Remipedes.
#18 - The Surfing Snails
Octonauts - Season 4 - Episode 10
When surfing snails are swept out to sea by a huge wave, it's up to Dashi and the Octonauts to save them before their bubble rafts pop!
#19 - The Hungry Pilot Fish
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 27
The Octonauts are chased by a whitetip shark only to discover all it really needed was a pilot fish to clean its teeth, and it just so happens that they have just met a lonely pilot fish that is hungry for action.
#20 - The Mixed-Up Whales
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 23
When the Octonauts clean and repair their ship, the Octopod, the resulting noise causes a nearby blue whale to act in strange and dangerous ways.
#21 - The Giant Squid
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 6
The Octonauts roam the oceans in search of adventure and fun. Whether it's a perilous voyage to the bottom of the sea or the piratey pursuit of a giant squid, the Octonauts leap into action and always prove that eight heads are better than one! The Octonauts set out to find and photograph Inkling's long lost cousin, the elusive Giant Squid.
#22 - The Monster Map
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 12
The Octonauts follow an old map to what Kwazii believes is treasure guarded by a sea monster but, instead, they meet a playful Octopus with all kinds of surprising abilities.
#23 - The Blobfish Brothers
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 11
The Octonauts must evacuate sea creatures before an underwater volcano erupts, but there's one creature that won't budge: a slow moving, gelatinous Blobfish.
#24 - The Cookiecutter Sharks
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 31
What keeps making strange holes in the Octonauts' equipment? Turns out it's a trio of pesky Cookiecutter Sharks, the mosquitos of the sea!
#25 - The Orcas
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 7
When a huge Orca whale becomes stranded on a beach, Captain Barnacles Bear and the Octonauts devise a plan to pull him back into the water, with some help from a group of tunnelling Fiddler Crabs.
#26 - The Enemy Anemones
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 16
The Octonauts and some helpless crabs are caught between two territorial groups of aggregating anemones - and their numbers are growing!
#27 - The Lost Lemon Shark
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 48
The Octonauts have their hands full as they look after a headstrong young Lemon Shark who's hurt his nose and can't find his way home.
#28 - The Giant Spider Crab
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 50
The octonauts help a 100 year old spider crab which has got its leg trapped in a giant clam whilst en route to its own 100th birthday party. It turns out that Kwazii's afraid of spiders, but he still helps, even though he thought it was a real spider at first.
#29 - The Speedy Sailfish
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 10
When all the Gups go out of control, Barnacles and Kwazii leap onto the backs of some speedy Sailfish to round them up.
#30 - The Slime Eels
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 38
Kwazii covets the treasure in a sunken pirate ship, but its protected by slime squirting Slime Eels.
#31 - The Undersea Storm
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 2
When Kwazii's Gup-B breaks down in a storm, not even brave Captain Barnacles can save him alone. Fortunately, a chain of reef lobsters lends a hand - and some claws.
#32 - The Crab and Urchin
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 3
Barnacles and Kwazii investigate a disruption on a nearby reef: a carrier crab and the urchin who lives on its shell just can't seem to get along.
#33 - The Flamingos
Octonauts - Season 4 - Episode 13
The Octonauts wade through a swamp to find a lost flamingo chick before hungry predators do!
#34 - The Giant Jelly
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 30
The Octonauts must rescue Peso when he gets trapped inside a giant Comb Jelly!
#35 - The Albino Humpback Whale
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 14
The Octonauts help out an Albino Humpback Whale with a nasty sunburn.
#36 - The Giant Whirlpool
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 21
The Octonauts race against time to rescue Tweak's pal, a leatherback sea turtle who's caught in a fast-moving ocean current that's sucking it into a whirlpool.
#37 - The Walrus Chief
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 4
When Peso's precious medical kit is taken, Barnacles and Kwazii sneak into a dangerous walrus colony to get it back, disguised as a walrus.
#38 - The Pirate Parrotfish
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 45
When the Octonauts go on a pirate treasure hunt, Kwazii meets a Parrotfish.
#39 - The Whale Shark
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 1
When Dashi is accidentally swallowed by a whale shark, the Octonauts venture inside the huge fish to rescue her.
#40 - The Crawfish
Octonauts - Season 4 - Episode 9
When a population of crawfish is stricken by illness, the Octonauts race to find a cure.
#41 - The Seahorse Tale
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 29
After a storm, the Octonauts have to reunite a seahorse with its missing mate - who is about to give birth to baby seahorses!
#42 - The Great Algae Escape
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 8
Captain Barnacles and his crew must catch a runaway Octopod, when it is hijacked by a group of crustaceans trying to escape their algae-infested waters.
#43 - The Marine Iguanas
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 43
As the Octonauts prepare for their annual seaweed feast near the Galapagos Islands, a trio of salt sneezing Marine Iguanas steal their seaweed!
#44 - The Hermit Crabs
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 22
When Captain Barnacles Bear and most of the crew are unable to return to base, it's up to Peso and Tweak to remove a stuck hermit crab from its shell.
#45 - The Midnight Zone
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 18
While exploring the deepest part of the ocean, the Midnight Zone, the Octonauts discover a strange rock that happens to be home to a new species of worm.
#46 - The Decorator Crab
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 25
When important objects go missing from their ship, the Octonauts stake out the thief, who turns out to be a decorator crab stealing their things to decorate his shell.
#47 - The Crafty Cuttlefish
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 47
Captain Barnacles' compass has been taken by a crafty, shape shifting Cuttlefish
#48 - The Scary Spookfish
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 36
The Octonauts try to pull Peso out of an oceanic trench and get some help from a strange looking creature with a see through head: a Spookfish.
#49 - The Flying Fish
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 5
When a school of flying fish accidentally make off with a rare book belonging to Professor Inkling, the Octonauts rig up the Gup B to fly after them and get it back.
#50 - The Enormous Elephant Seal
Octonauts - Season 1 - Episode 39
When Peso and the Octonauts aid an enormous Elephant Seal, he overstays his welcome in the Octopod.